With reference to the dismally low turn out for the elections for Police and Crime Commissioners in England and Wales, I have grave concerns about the legitimacy of the results and the democratic validity of your post and call upon you to resign your portfolio with immediate effect.I believe you and your department at best may be charged with utterly and hopelessly failing the general public over these elections, and at worst may stand accused of gerrymandering.I fear the Home Office anticipated, if not engineered, the appallingly low turn out and wilfully permitted the elections to continue in full knowledge that the majority of the general public were not engaged with.

What cost you and I the licence payer £185,000 was Newsnight's gleeful, deliberate and calculated character assassination of a perfectly innocent person. Still, if that is what you want from your BBC..

Anyway, this just in. Parliamentary elections are undemocratic rubbish. Manchester Central Parliamentary by-election: The turnout of just over 18% is believed to be the lowest in a by-election since World War II.

Anyway, this just in. Parliamentary elections are undemocratic rubbish. Manchester Central Parliamentary by-election: The turnout of just over 18% is believed to be the lowest in a by-election since World War II.

A symptom of the regard in which politicians and politics are held by the public at the moment perhaps?

"it is a well known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it."

Spot on!! They are down there with Estate Agents, bankers and lawyers ror Parliamentary elections, local elections and PCC elections all.

The encouraging thing in the number of Independents who have won PCC elections. Nine so far. That should shake up the previously cosy relationship between the police and the part politically dominated Police Authorities.